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By: Ramon A LovatoWhen Railrunner service was cut recently, Santa Fe didn’t get a vote. No Santa Fe representative has sat on the Rio Metro Board since its inception. Now, Santa Fe officials are pushing the Rio Metro Board to reverse the decision.]]>By: Joey PetersTrish and Chip Byrd operate the Essential Guide, a 23-year-old glossy publication that acts as high-end bible to the city.]]>By: Rani MollaKaleidospoke is a three-month long art exhibition and film showcase organized and curated by graphic artist Vanessa Wilde. The work, which includes that of six muralists from around the country who are also cyclists, explores issues in modern cycling. Wilde talks to SFR about the bike scene in Santa Fe and how it relates to art.]]>By: Wren AbbottJoni Arends is the executive director of Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, a group that monitorsimpact on the environment and human health attributable to Los Alamos National Laboratory.]]>By: Rani MollaThis month, 25 galleries hold simultaneous openings on Canyon Road. Mary Bonney discusses the art walk and the art scene.]]>By: Wren AbbottPrasoon Wilson is a former tennis instructor turned manager of The Friendship Club in Santa Fe, a community center that hosts 12-step meetings, yoga classes, dances and free holiday meals.]]>By: Alexa SchirtzingerLauren Addario is a funny, self-effacing artist; the cultural technology coordinator for New Mexico Highlands University’s media arts department—and the older sister of Lynsey Addario, a New York Times photojournalist captured, abused and released by forces loyal to Muammar el-Qaddafi in Libya last month.]]>The Santa Fe Children’s Museum closes its doors on Monday, April 18. But don’t worry: It will reopen on May 7, bigger and better than ever. SFR visited with recently hired Executive Director Anna Marie Tutera Manriquez and Deputy Director Jeff Dailey to learn what the expansion means for the city’s most curious and clamorous constituency.]]>By: Julia GoldbergUS nuclear testing occured in the Marshall Islands between 1946 and 1958, during which time the US detonated 67 nuclear bombs, including the 1954 “Bravo” test, which was larger than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Artist and documentary filmmaker Adam Horowitz first went to the Marshall Islands in 1986 and made a 16 mm film, Home on the Range, about nuclear testing in the area.]]>By: Rani MollaAccording to Phillips Director and Chief Curator Irene Hofmann, SITE Santa Fe’s micro-granting art initiative SPREAD was the largest event of its kind. SPREAD raised nearly $8,000 for the kitty through sales of 250 tickets, as well as donations, for the March 18 dinner.]]>By: Wren AbbottJackie Gibbs, 22, used to be a gang member with a cocaine habit and a hefty juvenile rap sheet. Three years after responding to a YouthWorks flyer she saw posted at a mall, she’s YouthWorks’ operations director and has found her calling helping other young people put their lives on track.]]>By: Ramon A LovatoDana Levin, a former faculty member at College of Santa Fe (now Santa Fe University of Art and Design), is currently the Joseph M Russo endowed chairwoman at University of New Mexico, and is one of the organizers of the Muse Times Two poetry series at Collected Works Bookstore. She will return as acting CWD chairwoman at SFUAD this fall.]]>By: Alexa SchirtzingerFor years after finishing my stint as a Peace Corps volunteer in El Salvador, I listed “killing chickens” in the skills/interests section of my résumé—not because of my enduring hatred for the rooster that awakened me every morning at 2 but, rather, because the Peace Corps experience is singularly unshakable.]]>By: Rani MollaJennifer Muñoz has been with the Santa Fe Police Department for 71/2 years. In November, the lifelong Santa Fean left her position as administrative secretary for detective investigations for a newly created one: SFPD anti-graffiti coordinator.]]>By: Wren AbbottPhil Pfeiffer, a director, and his wife Cee Moravec, a set dresser, began building a house in Cerrillos powered by alternative energy after Pfeiffer took green building classes through Architects, Designers & Contractors Network in Santa Fe.]]>By: Ramon A LovatoIn 2010, sculptor and painter David Rudolph was selected for an $84,000 grant from the New Mexico Arts Commission for his proposed installation project, “The Books,” at Santa Fe Community Co]]>By: Alexa SchirtzingerFor one hour every Wednesday night at Tomasita’s, the clink of silverware and hum of conversation fade into the background, giving way to the chords of six stringed instruments—three violins, a bass, a guitar and a vihuela, or small Mexican rhythm guitar.]]>By: Rani MollaMark Barone and Marina Dervan are taking a year off from their regular lives for An Act of Dog, a Santa Fe-based art project geared at raising money to make animal shelters no-kill. Barone is in the process of painting 5,500 euthanized dogs—the number of dogs killed in US shelters each day.]]>By: Wren AbbottJenn Jevertson is the program manager at New Mexico Gay-Straight Alliance Network, a programcreated by the Santa Fe Mountain Center, a Tesuque nonprofit. The Gay-Straight Alliance Network organizes free events and trainings to help youth develop strength and leadership skills.]]>By: Ramon A LovatoThose who frequented the Plaza during summer 2010 might remember Jim McDonald as the juggling man on a large plastic ball. His current project: renovating an old bus in which to travel through Mexico bringing solar energy to rural communities without electricity.]]>